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of each individual, other scientists (such, for instance, as the Christian Scientists) tell us that there is no such thing as material life or pain, and there we are—rup in the a ir! Well, we are greatly indebted to the professor for his lecture, but he does not tell us where human beings all got the instinct to lie and steal? We would not presume to question his statement that not a single one of the “ early tree-dwellers” ever fell to the ground, got a hard bump, and survived it (though it often happens with children now-a-days), but we do know that when Adam fell, he struck hard, and the memory still survives in the consciousness of the race, for when he believed the devil’s lie rather than God’s Word, he became subject to the law of sin and death and brought judgment upon himself and upon his descendants, so that “ There is none righteous, no, not one!” Every child born in the world since Adam (except the Lord Jesus Christ) has had a lying, steal ing nature, and the scientists are no exception. Thank God, however, “ the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” makes us “ free from the law of sin and death.” THE I. W. W .’S Throughout the country, the representatives of the I. W. W.’s (popularly known as the “ I Won’t Work ers” ) are doing great damage to our American insti tutions. They won’t work, and they do not want any body else to work. Their principal effort is with their tongues and in the 'distribution of “ red literature de rogatory to our Government. They despise our flag and would undermine the very foundations of our na tion. They are a menace to the peace and prosperity of America and should be exiled to Russia. But there is another kind of I. W. W .’s in our coun try who are an even greater peril than those to whom we have just referred. They are the “ Irreverent Wobbling Wobblies” who are seeking to destroy the true church by deceiving the people concerning the truth. The work of this second class of “ Wobblies” cor responds to that of the first. They voice vain sup positions and speculations regarding the creation of man, and profess to know more about what the Bible ought to teach than the Lord Himself. They oppose the government of the church. They rebel against its standards and its creeds. Their at titude toward the fundamental facts upon which the evangelical church was founded is identical with the attitude of the other “ Wobblies.” The political I. W. W .’s would plunge our nation into chaos by their propaganda of every man doing that which is right in his own eyes; the religious I. W. W .’s, by violating their sacred vows, would with one sweep precipitate pandemonium and leave us, with unshod feet, without a place to stand. For ourselves, we are satisfied with the Constitution of these United States. We are satisfied with our Bible—the old Bible. We know that it is true. We have proved it. We know no reason for wobbling. The Book says what it means, and means what it says. We can get along without any of these “ Wobblies” , political or religious, and would joyfully bid them fare well. The doors of Russia are open to them, and we cordially invite them to move to a country which will be more congenial to their mode of thought. Let all that are in favor,'say “ Amen!”
THE GRAVITY OF GRAY MATTER IN THE HEAD OF A PROFESSOR
A certain department in a prominent daily paper is called “Easy Chair Science,” and the particular theme which attracted our attention was entitled “ Did Our Ancestors Live Like Apes in Trees?” We quote: “Biologists have discovered that each individual, in the course of its development, repeats the stages of develop ment through which the race to which it belongs has pas sed. This is what the biogenetic law means—that chil dren pass through ail the ancestral stages which the human race has—since the very beginning—passed through; they “climb their own ancestral tree. * * * * If our ancestors lived in trees should we not be able, in the light of this law, to find evidence of such arboreal existence in children? Certainly neither physical nor men tal adaptations to a tree-dwelling habitat would be easily erased. But we should not expect the signs to be very dis tinct, for it was millions of years ago.* * * Several signs still speak quite eloquently of tree-dwelling times, how ever, and it is difficult to account for them on any theory other than that our ancestors were, during Eocene times, arboreal mammals... For example, a three-weeks-old infant can hang by the hands. The power of its grasp, being inherited rather than acquired is thought to have come from ancestors which used their hands, as monkeys use theirs, for hanging from the limbs of trees. Only the hu man offspring p ossesses such and iron grip.” As to “ climbing tbe ancestral tree”—we have no recollection of ever having climbed ours, but we have a vivid recollection of climbing (in our youth) another man’s tree, and have never forgotten the impression he' made upon us as a result. Regarding the “ iron grip,’’ however, it offers a reasonable explanation of the tendency (which we have never before been able to account for) of the hand to close with ‘‘an iron grip ’’ and refuse to go into one’s pocket while the collection basket is being passed in church, relaxing spontaneously as soon as the danger is passed. Quoting further from the learned professor: “C hildren n e v er h av e to be ta u g h t to clim b * * * y e t th e y have to be ta u g h t to sw im w hich is no m ore difficult th a n clim bing.” We understand now, how the climbing habit is ingrained in the system. The porch climber is a proof of it. He finds it an easy way to the house at night, and it comes much more naturally to him than ringing the doorbell. Again, “It is not also significant of the past that everywhere the swaying motions of boughs are employed to put restless babies to sleep? The “Rock-a-by-baby-on-the-tree-top” lul laby is wonderfully appealing, so biologists believe, to subconscious memories of times when all babies were rocked to sleep in trees. We all dream of falling, yet we never strike bottom. Why? Only such of the early tree- dwellers as landed lightly in ooze, or bushes or vines, left descendants to dream of their falls. Those that struck bottom died. Having descended from those who survived their falls, our dream-falls always end happily—at least, we never strike bottom!” Our sub-conscious minds are indeed saturated with instincts difficult to account for—but while this scientist tells us that all the stages of the develop ment of the race are reproduced in the development
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